Visual discomfort and depth-of-field

i-Perception

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 156-169

  O'Hare, Louise ^a,b   Zhang, Tingting ^c   Nefs, Harold T ^c   Hibbard, Paul B ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^c Interactive Intelligence Group ^*  (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blur; Depth of field; Natural images; Visual discomfort

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879158797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20416695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/i0566     Document Type: Article

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